Unclassified road crash in Ealing W5 on 30 December 2012 at 23:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ealing at 23:15 on Sunday 30 December 2012. The 17-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51858, longitude -0.30445, in the W5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ealing Broadway, Ealing, W5 2AG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201XD81036
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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The nearest, 110 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 2012.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201201XD81036 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 2012.